Spam telemarketing has pretty much been made illegal barring some specific exceptions carved out by the TCPA. So, long story short, every time I manage to identify one of the spam callers calling my phone… I sue them and get paid. It’s turning out to be a pretty nice gig. =)
It’s really hard to identify some of these spam callers sometimes though. As you might imagine, they hang up when they sense any kind of danger, like asking for company names or website addresses. Right now for example, I have a call back number for this company, it works, but it has a vanilla voicemail and they are never going to call me back.
How could I get the owner of this phone number? Any advanced methods that aren’t the whois sites?
Subpoena the carrier as part of a TCPA case against “john doe” ?
I get a HUGE number of spam calls due to my industry, so bad I had to change phone numbers. However I’ve kept my old numbers (ported to voip services and terminate with busy signals ATM) and they both still get about 30 calls a day from “we buy houses” spammers. Have been seriously considering TCPA suits since I have some credit card debt that needs paid off :)
Lol! I have totally considered this! Kind of want to save it as a last ditch effort, but I’m thinking there could be some opportunity in general testing with John Doe suits. I’ve leveraged bigger parties against defendants in the past, it’s very valid.